Jinker vs Tinker - What's the difference?
jinker | tinker |
(AU) A high wheeled wagon designed to carry lumber suspended under the body of the vehicle.
* 1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 155:
an itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of tin
(dated, chiefly, British, and, Irish, offensive) A member of the travelling community. A gypsy.
A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
Someone who repairs, or attempts repair on anything mechanical (tinkers) or invents.
The act of repair or invention.
(military, obsolete) A small mortar on the end of a staff.
Any of various fish: the chub mackerel, the silverside, the skate, or a young mackerel about two years old.
A bird, the razor-billed auk.
(Webster 1913)
To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Robert M. Pringle
, title=How to Be Manipulative
, volume=100, issue=1, page=31
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To work as a tinker.
As a noun jinker
is (au) a high wheeled wagon designed to carry lumber suspended under the body of the vehicle.As a proper noun tinker is
for someone who mends pots and pans.jinker
English
Noun
(en noun)- He stood in the jinker and gave the horse a great thwack on the backside with the end of the reins.
Anagrams
*tinker
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (mischievous person) rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scamp, scoundrel * (member of the travelling community) travellerVerb
(en verb)citation, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}